Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Illinois may follow the lead of other states and hold a vaccine lottery that allows the freshly vaccinated to enter a contest to win some money. The aim is to get the state closer to herd immunity, which means 75% to 80% of the population needs to be inoculated. “This pandemic isn’t over, and there are many, many people who have not been vaccinated yet,” the governor .
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The Better Government Association welcomes two interns to work with the BGA’s award-winning investigative team for the next six months.
Analisa Trofimuk and Siri Chilukuri were selected from more than 100 applicants nationwide to join the nonprofit newsroom as it continues an ambitious internship program launched last year.
Trofimuk is currently a graduate student at DePaul University where she studies data journalism. A native of suburban Tinley Park, she graduated from Columbia College in 2018, and has interned at the Chicago Sun-Times and Austin Talks. Most recently, Trofimuk worked as a Central Illinois government reporter for Lee Enterprises.
Tribune Publishing journalists and their allies, using a “fat cat” balloon as a prop, protest Alden Global Capital’s possible takeover of the company. The Saturday rally, backed by the NewsGuild-CWA union, was outside the Chicago Tribune’s printing plant in River West. The speaker is Don Villar, secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Federation of Labor, which has an ownership stake in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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This Friday, board members of Tribune Publishing are due to convene remotely with a heavy responsibility. The directors of the Chicago-based company are scheduled to vote on selling it to a hedge fund known for ruthless cost cutting.
Tribune journalists are close to an improbable win in quest for new owners
The battle for control of Tribune Publishing isn’t over yet. But it s taken a major turn one that only the most optimistic observers could have foreseen even as recently as two weeks ago.
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(Bloomberg) In January of last year, two Chicago Tribune reporters began looking for a civic-minded investor to rescue the newspaper from what they viewed as the clutches of a notorious hedge fund.
For several months, David Jackson and Gary Marx interviewed more than 100 people in the business and philanthropic world, often making calls from a conference room inside the newsroom. They also published an essay in the New York Times predicting the hedge fund, Alden Global Capital, would create “a ghost version of the Chicago Tribune” despite being warned it could get them fired.
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